"The European Commission has accused Motorola Mobility of abusing its standard-essential patents against Apple in Germany. The Commission has sent a Statement of Objections to the company over a misuse of its GPRS patents, which has seen Motorola pursue injunctions against Apple products instead of properly licensing the technology."

Too bad so many commenters are clueless and don't even understand what FRAND patents are all about and why abusing them is far worse for the consumer than anything Apple did with their (non-FRAND) patents.

Agreed. People let their Microsoft/Apple hate crowd out their common sense some times.

The abuse of FRAND patents is the single most destructive thing that could happen to software. It will blow the entire thing up. You'd make every standard which falls under a FRAND promise unsafe if Motorola were allowed to set precedent and seek injunctions over FRAND patents.

I don't think you want Motorola, or Samsung, or anyone else for that matter being able to sue anyone into oblivion over a WiFi, or an LTE patent or something.

Where did Google abuse FRAND patents against anyone besides Apple? I'm not fond of Google retaining Motorola patent litigation, but I'm OK with Google doing it against Apple who is the notorious aggressor. If there is some case when Google pushes these patents on others (not in defense against aggression), then I'd agree that it is much worse.

Uh, Google tried to extract unbelievable amounts of money from Microsoft in Germany and in the USA using FRAND patents which landed them in hot water in the US.

Its not specifically about Google or Apple or Microsoft, its about the precedent it'd set for all holders of FRAND patents. It'd make their commitments worthless and open the door to increased litigation around vital standards.

You'd be giving the likes of the MPEG-LA unbelievable power at the expense of spiting Apple. You've gone off the deep end.